“Le fumer n’est pas une émancipation mais une soumission…”
via www.lemonde.fr
Memo from Who Framed Roger Rabbit’s director of animation, Richard Williams, to all those working within the animation department.
But to talk to those behind the sidewalks and the benches is to see these ubiquitous objects as powerful tools of social planning, tearing down walls between rich and poor, helping a city bereft of an identity develop a sense of place and ownership.
The oldest reference to be found is from Juvenal from the late First Century of the Christian Era – rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cycno. With apologies to the women reading this, Juvenal railed that finding a perfect wife is akin to finding a black swan (a rare bird). Shakespeare may well have used the term too – but by his day in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the black swan was used to describe something that was impossible. Although the expression is not found in his works (perhaps he preferred to invent his own) the black swan represented that which was impossible (or nearly so) and therefore simply could not be.
The original art work was completed for RCA by an artist named Brooks on August 23, 1938. The master art was improbably discovered in a dumpster by a wrecking crew worker as the old RCA factory in Harrison, NJ was being demolished in 1970.
